Match.



NITED srarns PATENT onnion.

JOHN R. NOLAN, 0F NEW YORK, Ni Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE DIAMONDMATCH COMPANY,

. OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION 0F ILLINOIS.

MATCH.

Application filed March 6,

To all whom it may concern.'

i Be it known that I, JOHN R. Nomix; a citizen of the United States, and resident ot the city of New York, in the county and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inl/latches, of which the following is a speeication.

This invention relates to friction lmatches; its object being to provide a match of simple and efficient construction whereby the initial ignit-ing and subsequentburningot' the stick is facilitated, and whereby the intimate connection of the head composition with the stick is insured.

To this end theinvention, as generally stated, comprises a match having its stick provided with a substantially continuous series of adjacent longitudinal grooves which present a multiplicity ot thin lateral edges around thestick, and also atl'ord a locking medium for theigniting head composition, as will be hereinafter particularly described and claimed. l

In `the drawings-Figure l is a perspective view of a match, enlarged, em iodying a good form ofmy invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section through the stick, as on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and l. are crossseotions of slightly modified forms or" sticks.

The match stick a is herein illustrated as round in cross-section, but of course the stick may be of Octagon-al or other crosssectional form. Instead ot'being smooth, or practically so, as lheret-ofor the `peripheral surface of the stick is provided with a substantially continuous series ot' longitudinal channels or grooves l, of .appropriate form, arranged in close relation to each other to present amultiplicity of longitudinal edges or tins, 2, extending preferably tlirougl1out..tlie length of the stick. or nea rly so. By varying the cross-sectional iorm ot' the grooves the sH'apeof the tins may be altered. For example, as illustrated in Figs. l' and 2, the grooves are shaped `similarly'to the inclined intel-dental spaces oi a circular saw.; and as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4 the grooves are of V-orm and U- form respectively. In each case a multiplicity of thin longitudinal edges 2 is pro- Specifeaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 29,1912. 15H2.' Serial No. 681,944.

duced around and throughout the length of the stick or substantially so.

The igniting composition is applied in a semiliquid or plastic state to one end of4 the stick to provide, when hard, the usual st-riking head 7).' Such composition enters the grooves, and the head thus becomes embedded in and firmly interlocked with the stick, as indicated in Fig. 2. By this constructioh it will be seen that not only is the head practically an integral part ofv the stick, but when the head is'struck in` the usual manner the resulting flame at once attacks the `multiplicity ot' thin lateral edges which thereupon communicate the flame et'- t'ectively to the body of the splint; and further thatthe presence of these t-hin edges around the stick and in the direction of its length insures the free burning of the stick after its initial ignition. Moreover, the provision of the thin burning edges with their attendant aid to easy ignition permits the use of a relatively small quantity of igniting composition for the head of the match.

I claim- A l. llsnew article of manufacture, a friction match having its stick provided with a substantially continuous series of adjacent peripheral grooves which present a multiplicity of thin burning edges extend ing lengthwise o1 the stick.

2. As a new article of manufacture. a friction match having its stick provided throughout. its periphery, -from end to end, with a substantially continuous yseries oi a djacent groove l present a multiplicity oit thin burnin(` lges extending lengthwise of the stick.`

.is a new article oi. manufacture, a friction match having its stick provided with a substantiall)v rontinuous seriesI ot adjacent peripheral grooves which present a multiplieitv oi thin burning edgesl extending lengthwise oi'ihe stick. and having its head composition firmly embedded in one end ot .said grooves.

l. As a new article of ummlt'aeture. a friction match having a substantially continuous series of longitudinal grooves arranged in close relation to each other and Signed at; New York, in the county and shaped similarly to the inclined nterdental State of New York this fourth day of spaces of a circular saw as shown andvde- March, A. D. 1912.

scribed, so as to lpresent a multiplicity of y JOHN R. NOLAN. burning edges, said match having its ignit- Witnesses: ing head composition firmly embedded in M. B. GQEWEY,

one end of said grooves. J oHN F. JACOBS.l

Copies of this patent may he obtained for five cents each,4 by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, IJ. C. 

